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Podcast: The Herald
Episode: Are invasive body searches of prison visitors really necessary?
Description: Correctional services officials and members of the public have been “caught in the act” smuggling contraband into prisons, with drugs and cellphones being particularly rife at the St Albans Correctional Centre in Nelson Mandela Bay.
That is according to correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo, responding to reports of invasive body searches.
Weekend Post recently reported that two women visiting at St Albans had been forced to strip naked and endure humiliating internal searches for contraband.
The women said that apart from having to go through a metal detector and enduring pat-downs from guards at the...